Sunday
May202012
DIY $99 Thunderbolt eSATA Adaptor
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 4:11PM ;)
This is a really cool idea! A DIY eSATA adapter posted on Camerarentalz.com
For those of us who are looking to download those huge RED Epic files this is a REALLY handy project!
He used a Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter for eSATA drives and just hooked up a cable to the adapter and then plugged it into the back of the RED SSD Reader. Very cool!
I will post a link on the sidebar to take you to the Amazon store for this!
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Speaking of Thunderbolt. ASUS is putting in on their newer intel boards so you can add it with an add-on card and AMD boards to boot:
ASUS to Give AMD AM3+ Platform Thunderbolt Support
ASUS unveiled a new line of socket AM3+ motherboards at Computex, which will constitute its lineup at least for the rest of 2012. The new motherboards are based on existing 9-series chipset, and are mere revisions of existing AM3+ motherboard models. These include the Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX + SB950), M5A99FX PRO R2.0 (990FX + SB950), Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 (990FX + SB950) and M5A99X EVO R2.0 (990X + SB950). What all these motherboards have in common, is a header labeled "TB_HEADER," which connects them to ASUS' Thunderbolt EX add-on card.
The ASUS Thunderbolt EX is a swanky PCI-Express 2.0 x4 add-on card, which is driven by an Intel "Cactus Ridge 2C" Thunderbolt host controller. The TB_HEADER is a low-level connection between the motherboard and the add-on card, which transacts power state, signaling, and device hot-plugging events to the system BIOS. Some of ASUS' recent 7-series LGA1155 motherboards can be retrofitted with Thunderbolt the same way, and feature the same header. The card has a nice EMI shield running the entire length of its PCB. Its rear panel has one full-size DisplayPort, which is actually an input from your graphics card, and one Thunderbolt + mini-DP output.